In Florida, medical marijuana is legal for patients with conditions like arthritis, cancer, and chronic pain.
In Florida, if a resident wants to buy a gun, they have to fill out ATF Form 4473 before they’re allowed to take it home. If the person trying to buy a gun is a medical marijuana patient, they are required to answer “yes” to question 11.e, which asks if the person is “addicted to controlled substances.” The firearms dealer is legally prohibited from selling any weapons to that person. This is the case in states other than Florida, too.
BTW: In 2016, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that prohibiting those with medical marijuana cards from buying guns does not violate their Second Amendment rights. So it’s not just legal, it’s required for a gun dealer to refuse to sell to someone who consumes cannabis for their irritable bowel syndrome.
In Florida, there is a 3-day waiting period to buy a handgun. There is no waiting period to purchase a semi-automatic rifle (oh wait, ‘modern hunting rifle’) such as the AR-15 used by Nikolas Cruz in the Parkland school shooting on Valentine’s Day, or the Sig Sauer MCX used by the Orlando nightclub shooter.
In February of 2017, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz legally purchased an AR-15, presumably to accompany him to the paramilitary drills he participated in with white nationalist group Republic of Florida, or to pose on his Instagram page alongside pictures of animals he’d killed. Or maybe it was in preparation for becoming a “professional school shooter,” which he’d claimed he was doing in a YouTube comment under his first and last name. He had previously been suspended from school for carrying bullets in his backpack, but unfortunately going to school with ammo in your bag or literally saying you want to be a school shooter is not enough reason to deny someone their constitutional right to assault weapons. If only he’d had a weed card instead.